Quilling-machine.



J. RIGBY.

QUILLING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 8, 1909.

UNITE QUILLIN (vi-MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

Application filed July 8, 1909. Serial No. 506,502.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES RIGBY, a cit1- zen of the United States, residing in Paterson, Passaic county, New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Quilling-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to winding machines and it has for its principal object to provide a winding machine whereby the material to be wound can be passed directly from the swifts on which it is primarily disposed to the shuttle-quills or bobbins, thereby saving the intermediate step now involved in winding first onto spools or bobbins before winding onto the shuttle-quills or bobbins. According to my invention, the direct winding can be effected without undue breakage of the thread, although the latter may be of a very delicate character, owing to the relative arrangement of the supply and receiving media and the tension means controlling the thread.

In the accompanying drawing, the single figure shows in side elevation so much of a winding machine constructed in accordance with this invention as it is necessary to illustrate for the purpose in hand.

a in said drawing represents the winding machine and Z) its superstructure. 0 1s a quill which is rotatably driven in any suitable manner so as to cause the thread (Z to be wound thereon. In the superstructure b are arranged the arms 6 which ail'ord bearings for the swift f which affords the supply of thread for the quill 0. Only one swift, quill and thread are shown, it belng understood that, as usual, there is a series of each of them at each side of the machine.

9 is a cross-sectionally round rod which extends longitudinally of the machine centrally of its superstructure b and in the lower portion thereof. At each side of this red, and in a plane slightly above it, is arranged another rod h, also cross-sectionally circular.

2' designates antenna-shaped wires of elastic metal. Each wire has its free end curved downwardly and bent into an eyelet j, while its other end is twisted tightly around one of the rods h, thereby gripping the same and holding the wire in the upwardly inclined position shown in the drawing. The rod h to which each wire secured is the one which is the farther from the swift and quill to which said wire corresponds, and as the wire at its free or eyelet end reaches well over the quill appropriated to it, it is relatively long and hence quite flexible, so that it maintains a delicate though instantly re sponsive tension on the thread.

The thread extends, as shown, first down around the rod 9, then around rod h adjointoward. which it extends, then through the eyelet of the wire 2', and finally to the quill. In some cases, it may be simply passed over rod h, without being extended around it.

The swift, quill, rigid thread-guide g and the thread-engaged portion j of the elastic thread-guide 2' being all arranged at diflerent elevations, the parts 9 and j at elevations between those occupied by the quill and swift and part 9 nearer the elevation of the quill than the part 9', it is possible to wind direct from swifts to quills or bobbins under conditions of uniform tension and without undue breakage of the threads and this whether the threads be coarse or fine or have great or little tensile strength.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The combination, with the frame, a rotary quill on which the thread is adapted to be wound and a rotary swift from which the thread is adapted to be unwound, the swift and quill being arranged one at a higher elevation than the other, of a substantially rigid thread guide and an elastic threadguide, the latter being stationarily secured to the frame and the former and the threadengaged portion of the elastic thread-guide mg the swift from which and the quill' being disposed at elevations situated be- In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I tween the elevations occupied by the swift have hereunto set my hand this second day and quill, and the rigid thread-guide being of July 1909.

disposed at an elevation nearer the eleva- JAMES RIGBY. tion occupied by the quill than the elevation Witnesses:

occupied by the swift, substantially as de- JOHN W. STEWARD,

scribed. WM. D. BELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

